We performed a comparison between Juniper vSRX and Meraki MX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The performance is good."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"The most valuable features are application filtering, content filtering, the intrusion prevention system (IPS), and definitely the application firewall."
"The initial setup was very straightforward. There was no problem. The initial deployment took about one hour."
"It's much faster to deploy a power source. If you need to deploy a firewall in the cloud of software, it's much easier and much faster than deploying the office firewall in a rush."
"The architecture of the OS in Juniper is very good. It's flexibility, scalability, and the technicality is also good."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"The command feature is valuable."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"To me, the analytics feature is one of the most valuable in Meraki MX. I also find that it has good usability as it's cloud-based. Another valuable feature of Meraki MX is that it's simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"It is very easy to configure."
"It is a robust SD-WAN solution."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"What I like best about Meraki MX is that it's easy to deploy remotely. The product works. It has automatic updates. I also like that Meraki MX is a brilliant device. You turn it on, stick the key in there, activate it, and then you're done. Meraki MX does what my customers need at the end of the day, so I also like that."
"The initial setup for me was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"I would like to see an activity sensor for malicious content or sensor for viruses and malware."
"The GUI interface needs improvement."
"Juniper vSRX is expensive."
"Right now, we are going through issues and problems where the product gets dropped with the connection or during the authentication initial phase. While it could be our problem, we would like to see more stability in this area."
"The solution should consider improving its licensing policies."
"It could use more tutorials."
"The solution can be improved by allowing automatic updates for the OS devices."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"We feel that Cisco provides smaller features, with fewer possibilities versus other solutions out there."
"We can’t access GUI management and CLI opening features when the Internet is unavailable."
"We could have more reporting options and the ability to send alarms to the administrator."
"We had minor issues with Meraki MX. We had a couple of RMAs, so that could be an area for improvement, but in terms of how the RMAs went, the turnaround time and getting those back into redeployment were quick. Another area for improvement in Meraki MX is that when you're scaling for multiple locations, you need to use the same model, but the model you'd need is only available for a short time. The specific model you require could be out of stock, or Meraki isn't making that model anymore, so Meraki should improve that."
"More detail needed for configuration of the VPN."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"Right now, you can postpone the update but eventually, if you don't do the update, it will install the updates automatically for you and that's something that is not working for me."
Juniper vSRX is ranked 8th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 33 reviews while Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews. Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8, while Meraki MX is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Zscaler Cloud Firewall, whereas Meraki MX is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG, SonicWall TZ and Netgate pfSense. See our Juniper vSRX vs. Meraki MX report.
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